The Press: Test in Competition

On the witness stand a blonde prostitute listened attentively as defense
counsel read smoky passages from love letters she had written to one of
the two male defendants, both accused of white slavery.

She listened no more attentively than the five Minneapolis Tribune
newsmen ranged along reporters' row in Minneapolis' U.S.

District Court. During the reading, the five reporters industriously
scribbled notes. Then they hurried back to the paper, where each wrote
his own story about the prostitute's day in court.. Next morning the
Tribune carried one of the stories but only one.